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The Latest - Environmental Defenders Office (edo.org.au)From the AFR:

"Brendan Dobbie, managing director of the Environmental Defenders Office, described the ruling as “a fantastic outcome for our client, and the whole community, that has affirmed the need for proper consultation to take place before approvals are granted in offshore developments”.

(But Susan McDonald, the Coalition’s resources spokeswoman, said the decision was “another example of Labor’s funding for green activists undermining Australia’s future prosperity”.Ms Cooper is represented by the Environmental Defenders Office, which was allocated funding in the Albanese government’s October budget, a move that one analyst said at the time went against the petroleum regulator, against regional jobs and against ensuring energy supply to Asian allies.)

“NOPSEMA should never have accepted Woodside Energy’s Environment Plan, knowing these requirements had not yet been met,” he said.

Ms Cooper said she was “elated” by the decision, which was important for her people and their history. “Woodside just came and told us what was happening,” she said. “They never bothered to sit down and listen to Murujuga traditional custodians about the full impacts of their Burrup Hub operations on our culture and our sacred songlines.”

The Scarborough project involves the development of an offshore field, where Woodside is partnered by Japan’s Sojitz Corporation and Sumitomo Corporation, and the expansion of the onshore Pluto LNG plant near Karratha, in which Global Infrastructure Partners is investing."